Attorney Mark Keaton, a nightmare human being, was disbarred from practicing law in Indiana last week because he systematically harassed, threatened, stalked, and distributed naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend over the course of six long years. »5/01/15 11:10am 5/01/15 11:10am

While performing in Indianapolis last night, Rihanna had some choice words to describe Indiana’s new “bullshit” law. In short: “Fuck that shit...We’re just living our motherfucking lives.” »4/05/15 1:30pm 4/05/15 1:30pm

Sure, every place is fucked up in some regard. Every place has a story of awfulness in its past or present. But some places are notoriously backwards, and if you’re from one of them, you might carry the irreconcilable tension of loving and loathing it for life. Even when you move away. Especially when you move away. »4/05/15 12:45pm 4/05/15 12:45pm

Having witnessed the debacle currently happening in Indiana, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has declined for now to sign the state's own recently passed "Religious Freedom Restoration Act." House Bill 1228 passed on Tuesday, but Hutchinson—while being careful not to anything too supportive of LGBT people—said he… »4/01/15 3:30pm 4/01/15 3:30pm

Yesterday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed SB 101 into law, a "religious freedom" bill that will allow business owners in the state to discriminate against whoever they please. A dozen other states are considering similar measures, but in the meantime, let's consider how we got here: the Supreme Court's terrible…»3/27/15 9:50am 3/27/15 9:50am

The Prison Rape Elimination Act has a pretty self-evident mission, and yet, somehow, there are still people who manage to be against it. PREA, first passed in 2003 and finalized in 2012, establishes basic standards to keep American prisoners from being assaulted by other inmates or (more commonly) guards. Yet a… »3/26/15 2:15pm 3/26/15 2:15pm

Indiana could be the first state to approve so-called "baby boxes" for abandoned newborns. The boxes look a bit like bread boxes, but are actually incubators meant to keep a newborn alive until it can be recovered. The boxes would also include an alarm that, once pressed, would alert first responders. »2/28/15 11:45am 2/28/15 11:45am

Christina Lorena Reber, the woman who mercilessly tore her ex boyfriend's testicles to bits in 2012, has just been sentenced to two years in connection to what the courts referred to as "an extraordinarily heinous injury." »2/10/15 6:00pm 2/10/15 6:00pm

Food editor Sarah Murrell has kicked off an entirely well-deserved feud with her uncle, Indiana State Senator Travis Holdman, after he recently filed a bill that would make it a felony offense to abort a fetus due to gender or fetal abnormalities. In an editorial, Murell tells her uncle she's horrified by the bill and… »1/20/15 6:00pm 1/20/15 6:00pm

A federal judge has ruled that an Indiana law seeking to change the definition of "abortion clinic" is unconstitutional. The law would have required that any medical facility providing RU-486, the abortion pill, be defined as an abortion clinic, forcing it to meet the same stringent standards Indiana has created for… »12/04/14 5:20pm 12/04/14 5:20pm

An Indiana father is facing a felony child neglect charge after his 15-year-old mentally disabled daughter was taken to a hospital by family members in a severely deteriorated state, weighing only 40 pounds. Jesus fuck. »12/02/14 5:00pm 12/02/14 5:00pm

A 32-year-old man in Seymour, Indiana, has been accused of 38 felony counts of battery, strangulation, criminal confinement and rape after his wife of barely over a year alerted police to her extensive abuse. Everything is awful. »9/06/14 2:30pm 9/06/14 2:30pm

Despite requests to strike it down, a northern Indiana judge has allowed a feticide charge to stand against Purvi Patel, a woman who had taken measures to abort her fetus and underwent a premature delivery. »8/27/14 1:00pm 8/27/14 1:00pm

For over 20 years, the state of Indiana hoarded the blood of newborns without their parents' consent. If your child was born in Indiana after 1991, chances are his or her blood sample is one of an estimated 2.5-million specimens currently stored in a warehouse, the location of which state officials have not disclosed. »7/19/14 6:17pm 7/19/14 6:17pm